Skill Rework - Arctic Breath

Very COOL update!

I love this, can't wait to try it out :)

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CowTrap wrote:

I like the changes but with the removal of the Skull it lost its appeal.
It looks like a weakly tossed wet snwball now. T_T

I also like current look better.

And specialized passives are bad idea imo.

lol. Specializing is the whole sense of passives. ALL passives are specialized on something, with no exception.

quad totem hiero is comeing POGGERS

So where does this leave ignite? I thought Fire was the DoT elemental dmg, cold with CC, Shock with burst multipliers. Now Cold gets DoT and CC?

Just feels like a Cold snap knock off from the damage profile to the visual effects. If you were going to overhaul a skill called Arctic Breath, I would have made it a channeled skill that slows to a freeze as enemies were damaged by it with a similar Area to Blight or Lightning Tendrils only instead of a full area make the line of breath Undulate side to side (think Kitava's fire breath but back and forth).

Seriously sad to see that Frost wall hasn't gotten an overhaul either (unless I missed that announcement. Skill that I used to use as a main skill before it was reworked (and abused) the first time, and then nerfed into uselessness.

But for Arctic Breath rework just from the rework vid I have to say I'm far from excited to try it.

I think it looks great and is something I want to make a build with...

But I'm not sure this is Arctic 'breath' rather than Arctic frostball.

As others have mentioned I would expect Arctic breath to be more like a channelling incinerate that waves back and forth, or starts shooting projectile ice after enough channelling.

gem links and tree pls :)

Players: "We want a cold channeling skill!"

GGG: "Right-o!"
*introduces auto-turret*
*introduces cold DoT*

Players: "Uhh... thanks..?"
*scratches head*